Keir Starmer’s Brexit plan is a mouse of a policy – what is he so afraid of? | Simon Jenkins

By refusing to discuss rejoining the single market or the customs union, Labour can’t deal with the ‘fatberg’ of red tape

The Labour leader Keir Starmer has at last peeped from behind his policy curtain and squeaked that he can “make Brexit work”. No, no, don’t worry, he is not against it, heaven forbid. He would not even wink at the single market or the customs union. He is just against the ostracising of scientists, the persecuting of vets and the “hulking fatberg” of red tape.

Labour’s silence ...